Baker adopted him from the humane society 3 years ago. We were a mixed family and they were not what you would call friends. Johnny was lonely after the loss of his longtime companion and “seeing eye dog”, Zed, who had died a year earlier and Blue wanted nothing to do with him. He was used to being singular. He loved playing with dogs at the park but had no affection for
Candy is a flat character who experiences loneliness. Candy is an old crippled man with no family. Isolated by his disability from the rest of the workers, all he has is his old dog. Once carlson kills his dog, candy is all alone.In the narrative after his dog is shot he says ,”You seen what they done to my dog tonight? They says he wasn't no good to himself nor nobody else.
She had been receiving letters from her ex-husband saying "How are you and the boys? Bet they’re getting big," (1, Medicine River). The clear absence of the father has caused Rose to become independent and have to raise her children by herself, as well as support her kids with no financial aid from a husband, an uncommon front for a woman in a time where men dominated. In addition to the independence and self-reliance of Bertha and Rose, Louise, a female who lives in Medicine River with Will, possesses these same characteristics. She has found a way to succeed at a job in a time when it occurs very seldomly for women.
Mariam has been lonely her entire life and after her mom committed suicide she couldn’t have been so lonely. “’You can eat downstairs with the rest of us.’ He said, but without much conviction. He understood a little too readily when Mariam said she preferred to eat alone.” (40) Mariam had no family after Nana died, all she had was Jalil, her birthfather who treated her like she was adopted, like a harami.
Do the characters get what they deserve in the End? During the novella of mice and men Curley’s wife is alienated, spoken behind her back, called vile names and singled out from the rest of the ranch, since she is the only woman there. Throughout the novella she is constantly giving hints on how lonely she is even in her own marriage, by the end of the book she is accidentally killed and freed from the life she so dearly hated. However, another view on her death could be negative since when she dies she does not get the life she deserves for being kept in a place she doesn’t want to stay or even she does deserve her death since she is vile for not committing to her marriage vows by being a coquette. Curley’s wife is clearly a very unhappy
When she arrives back at the caravan she lives in with her dad, he is incredibly shocked to hear his daughter begging him to let her keep a skinny, stinky, ugly stray, and he says a firm no. Finally, Opal manages to persuade her father, who is a preacher, to keep the dog. One night, there is a thunderstorm during which Opal and her father discover that Winn-Dixie has a terrible fear of storms. During the summer holidays, Opal and her dog spend a lot of time at the tiny library near her home. Opal doesn't have many friends.
The bunkhouse is where most of the conversations happen. Loneliness is a key theme which occurs inside the bunkhouse because this is where Carlson bullies candy into allowing him shoot his ageing, smelly, crippled dog. Candy is dependent on his dog as the dog has been with him for a long time but also there are similarities between candy and the dog they can be both labelled as useless because candy lost his hand whilst he was working on the ranch so there aren’t much work for him to do, the reason he still is on the ranch is so that he could claim his compensation that he deserves, the dog is also useless because his old and tired and wouldn’t be able to herd the sheep as before. So when Carlson does shoot the poor dog candy feels alone with no one to be there with him. Dreams is also linked in with the bunkhouse because this is where George and Lennie discuss their dream ‘of living on the fat of the land’ ‘ Lennie tending the rabbits’ but candy over hears their conversation and wants to be part of their dream.
In Steinbeck’s novel ‘Of mice and men’ there is only one female character. She is describes in many different ways at different points in the novel. In the 1920s women didn’t have any status and were expected to stay at home and take care of their husbands and their family home in the difficult time of the great depression. Curley’s wife isn’t the typical 1930s woman and instead of taking care of the family home , she quietly runs around the ranch looking for the men, for attention. In the novel she is described as; a predator, a ‘tart’, a ‘looloo’ but also described as, vulnerable, lonely and naive.
She also states that she “made a mistake when she married him”. She buys things to ‘escape’ such as the dog she buys when she is with Tom and Nick. They live in the same place they work, which is described as a “shadow of a garage” and later as “unprosperous and bare”. They live in what Nick describes as the “valley of ashes” and George is what he describes as an “ash grey men”. This shows that the poor are not living out the great American dream and how they live to work and work to live.
According to my aunt Flora Mejia, “Alcohol and the use of drugs are an ever- present part of our society and many married people get caught up in a terrible abuse of them”. My aunt suffered a lot because she loved her ex-husband. They never had children so that was a thing less to worry about. Their marriage ended after two years of being together. They didn’t exceed past twenty-seven years of age at the time.